Resources for further reading about Islam and American Muslims

• The Study Qur’an: A New Translation and Commentary

• The Story of the Qur’an, by Ingrid Mattson

• The Muslim Next Door, by Sumbul Ali-Karamali

• The Lives of Muhammad, by Kecia Ali

• On Being Muslim, by Farid Eseck

• Love in a Headscarf, by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

• Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations, by Michael Sells

• Qur’an, by Bruce Lawrence

• The Qur’an: A User’s Guide, by Farid Esack
• The Heart of Islam, by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Muslims and the Making of America, by Amir Hussain

• The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam, by G. Willow Wilson

• This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror, by Moustafa Bayoumi

• The Fear of Islam, by Todd Green

• Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World, by Carl Ernst

• Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters, by Omid Safi

• Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction, by Jonathan A.C. Brown

• Misquoting Mohammed, by Jonathan A.C. Brown

• Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, by John Esposito & Dalia Mogahed

• The Essential Koran: The Heart of Islam, by Thomas Cleary

• Muhammad, by Karen Armstrong

• In the Footsteps of the Prophet, by Tariq Ramadan

• Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, by Tamam Khan

• Orientalism, by Edward Said

• Islam, by Karen Armstrong

• The Qur’an: A Contemporary Understanding, by Safi Kaskas (translator)

• No God but God, by Reza Aslan

• Muhammad, by Martin Lings

• Islam, The Straight Path, by John Esposito

• The Road to Mecca, by Muhammad Asad

• Muslims in America, by Edward Curtis

• Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective, by John Renard

• Muslims in the Western Imagination, by Sophia Rose Arjana

• Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders, by Denise A. Spellberg

• Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, by Tamim Ansary

• How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, by Moustafa Bayoumi

• “A Common Word Between Us and You”

• Islam is a Foreign Country, by Zereena Grewal

• Muslim Cool, by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

• Islam and the Blackamerican, by Sherman Jackson

• The Muslims are Coming, by Arun Kundnani

[Fiction & Stories]:

• Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers

• Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson

• “Does My Head Look Big in This?” by Randa Abdel Fattah (YA)

• The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, by Mohja Kahf

• A Map of Home, by Randa Jarrar

• The Taqwacores, by Michael Muhammad Knight